Suggested and Required Readings

Short-term interns (Less than 2 months) are encouraged, but not requested to do these readings.  Long-term interns are urged to consider at least 2 of the books from each of the different lists below, to increase your knowledge and background of the country that you will be serving at.  If your internship is going to be considered for credits, contact your school about the required readings.

 

Guatemala Historical Texts

  • Virginia Garrard-Burnett. Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem
  • Victor Perera. Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy
  • Henri Nouwen. Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemala Story
  • Nancy Leigh Tierney. Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children
  • Daniel Wilkinson. Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala
  • Ralph Lee Woodward. A Short History of Guatemala
  • REMHI. Guatemala Never Again!
  • Stephen Schlesinger & Stephen Kinzer. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
  • W. George Lowell. A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala

Latin America in General Texts
  • Samuel Escobar. Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today
  • Clifford Krauss. Inside Central America: It's People, Politics and History
  • David Stoll. Is Latin America Turning Prostetant?
  • Oscar Romero. The Violence of Love
  • Gordon Spykman and others. Let My People Live: Faith and Struggle in Central America
  • Juan Gonzalez. Harvest of Empire
  • Orlando Costas. Christ Outside the Gate: Mission Beyond Christendom
  • Gustavo Gutierrez. Drink from Our Own Wells

Other texts of Interest
  • Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself.
  •  William Easterly. The White Mans Burden: Why the Wests Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so much Harm and so little Good.
  • Bryant Myers. Walking with the Poor.
  • Darrow Miller. Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Culture.
  • Stanley Saunders & Charles L.Campbell,  The Word on the Street – Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context. 
  • Robert Ekblad. Reading the Bible with the Damned.
  • Scott A. Bessenecker. The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor.


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